Increased Mobility Thanks to Robotic Rehab
From: Medical Design technology - 01/20/2014
By: Angelika Jacobs

A new study by the ETH research team of Robert Riener, Professor in the
Sensory-Motor Systems Lab, raises fresh hope. The researchers compared the
progress of patients with arm paresis in two different forms of therapy:
firstly conventional therapy in which patients underwent classical training
with a physiotherapist or occupational therapist, and secondly therapy in
which a robot aided arm movements during training. Their study showed that
the robot-assisted therapy leads on average to slightly better results than
the conventional therapy.

Read the entire article at:
http://www.mdtmag.com/news/2014/01/increased-mobility-thanks-robotic-rehab

Links:
Arm Therapy Robot ARMin II (video 0:18)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZk-NqniUSI

Arm Therapy Robot ARMin III (video 0:16)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfyP3sC94EQ

ARMin: a robot for patient-cooperative arm therapy
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17674069
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11517-007-0226-6#
http://www.researchgate.net/publication/6165447_ARMin_a_robot_for_patient-cooperative_arm_therapy

ARMin II - 7 DoF rehabilitation robot: mechanics and kinematics
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=4209730&tag=1